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Nicole Hensley

Houston

Reporter at Houston Chronicle

Courtroom hopping for the @HoustonChron, @spocats wrangler. I talk about pulling weeds too much. Past: @SpokesmanReview, @NYDailyNews

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  • 3 days ago | houstonchronicle.com | Matt Degrood |Nicole Hensley |John Ferguson

    A deputy and suspected shooter were wounded Monday after a man with a weapon was seen approaching a family courthouse in downtown Houston, leading to a shootout, the Harris County Precinct 1 Constable's Office confirmed. The armed man was walking from the area of the civil courthouse at 201 Caroline St., toward the Family Law Center, typically teeming with lawyers, courthouse workers and others during the busy lunch hour.

  • 3 days ago | officer.com | Matt Degrood |Nicole Hensley

    A deputy was shot, as was a suspected shooter, Monday after a man with a weapon was seen approaching a family courthouse in downtown Houston, the Harris County Precinct 1 Constable's Office confirmed. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said he believes the deputy will survive, but offered no further details. No information was available on the condition of the suspected shooter.

  • 1 week ago | houstonchronicle.com | Nicole Hensley

    Lawyers for Xavier Davis and prosecutors will address jurors one final time Thursday to glean his punishment in the death of a Houston child and her parents. Closing arguments follow 18 days of harrowing testimony about how Davis carried out a June 30, 2021, shooting — he pleaded guilty to the killings — and his impoverished and abusive childhood. The latter could sway jurors toward life imprisonment without a chance at parole.

  • 1 week ago | houstonchronicle.com | Nicole Hensley

    Xavier Davis’ mother suspected her child was “wired wrong.”Davis, on trial for capital murder in the deaths of a Houston family, was troubled as early as age 10. “He doesn't grasp the concept that he’s a follower, not a leader,” his mother, Tawaneka Pope, testified Monday in court.

  • 1 week ago | houstonchronicle.com | Nicole Hensley

    After two weeks of showing relatively little emotion, Xavier Davis — on trial for capital murder and facing the death penalty — verbally lashed out at those around him Tuesday in the courtroom. He first shouted at Judge Brian Warren, accusing him of lying about his jailhouse conversations with a sibling, and bickered with his brother in a holdover room for inmates after jurors left for lunch.

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3 Apr 25

RT @JohnWFerguson: Psychedelic vape pens, chocolates were at the center of Galveston smokeshop raids, police records say https://t.co/2RM1J…

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2 Apr 25

Has anyone ever seen practically every image in a district file restricted (not sealed). Even the complaint and probable cause documents from 2021 have been restricted. https://t.co/OgmFeBqZ8c

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14 Mar 25

RT @HoustonChron: Houston plans to abandon Polk Street for George R. Brown expansion. Here's why critics are worried. https://t.co/L7JuLW69…